What, you can't remember when the Rolls-Royce was made in...

June 4, 1986|By L.M. Boyd

What, you can't remember when the Rolls-Royce was made in the United States? For 11 years, that esteemed vehicle was assembled here, starting in the 1920s in Springfield, Mass. The market was not massive. At the time, about half the American cars worldwide were Model Ts.

That musical group called The Commodores say they got their name by flipping through a dictionary and putting a finger on a word, any word.

It's writ that a dentist named Henry D. Cogswell got rich during the California Gold Rush. By accommodating the gold miners who elected gold-capped front teeth as their status symbol.

There was a time in Iceland when a killing was only regarded as murder if done at night.

Q. Does Clint Eastwood's character Dirty Harry have a last name?

A. Callahan.

Q. Three times as many people visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as go to any other national park. How come?

A. It's only an overnight drive for half the nation's population.

Q. What happens to the urine of animals that truly hibernate?

A. It's reabsorbed into their systems.

Early Australians imported Asian water buffalo to pull plows. But the males proved almost as mean as the African cape buffalo. Too hard to handle. So farms folded. The buffalo went even wilder, and multiplied. Now, pods of palm trees grow overripe and ferment. The buffalo eat them and get drunk. There are some dangerous places down there when the woods are full of rampaging drunken buffalo.

Dieter, please note: What you've heard about cottage cheese is a myth. A half cup of it has more calories than a medium sized potato.

Eye doctors say you should watch television from a distance equal to at least five times the width of the screen.

''Chow mein with noodles'' is redundant. In Chinese, ch'ao-mein is noodles, fried.